R.I.P. Budd Friedman (1932-2022)
Budd Friedman didn’t intend to set the standard for stand-up comedy clubs across America (and the world). You might say it only happened thanks to …
Continue ReadingBudd Friedman didn’t intend to set the standard for stand-up comedy clubs across America (and the world). You might say it only happened thanks to …
Continue ReadingGallagher, a joke-teller, showman and prop comic born Leo Anthony Gallagher, Jr., died Nov. 11, 2022, in hospice care in Palm Desert, Calif. He was …
Continue ReadingPigs. Stud puppets. Love buckets. We are gathered here together to mourn the passing of Judy Tenuta, the love goddess, the petite flower of stand-up …
Continue ReadingSome sad news is hitting the comedy community today. Comedian Judy Tenuta – best known for her campy and quirky… MORE
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Jak Knight had to wait outside The Comedy Store for his big break. Not yet 21, Knight had sprinted down Sunset Boulevard from an early …
Continue ReadingGilbert Gottfried invited me into his home in 2017 so he could remind us what kind of comedian he was before 2001, why he decided to …
Continue ReadingSad news today as we report on the passing of the one and only Gilbert Gottfried. He was 67 years… MORE
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Stand-up comedian and actor Louie Anderson died Jan. 21, 2022, after being hospitalized in Las Vegas for DLBCL Diffuse large B cell lymphoma. Anderson was …
Continue ReadingRobert Lane Saget, known around the world as comedian and TV star Bob Saget, died Sunday after the first weekend of his 2022 stand-up comedy …
Continue ReadingRicarlo Flanagan was supposed to drop a new album today. But yesterday, friends and family mourned the comedian, actor and rapper, who died from COVID-19. Flanagan was 40. Originally from Ohio, Flanagan moved to Detroit in 2006 to advance his comedy an…
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